VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 504 569
Rank change year-on-year -6 +65 +171
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 69 55 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.58% 0.52% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 23 30
10th Percentile £411 £410 £313
25th Percentile £507 £497 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.71% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £629 £570
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £560 £473
% change year-on-year +11.61% +18.52% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,891 10,576 13,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 29.39% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,695 6,397 8,475
10th Percentile £305 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,012 508 757
10th Percentile £17.32 £19.12 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.28 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.71 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.70% -22.05% +18.89%
75th Percentile £45.88 £66.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £52.05
% change year-on-year -44.11% -13.55% +15.67%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -17 57 £581 +10.71% 26
UK excluding London -43 34 £625 +11.61% 22
London +19 23 £575 +17.95% 9
Work from Home +8 22 £530 -8.62% 14
South East -14 18 £625 +11.61% 8
South West -7 5 £630 +5.00% 5
North of England -37 5 - - 6
North West - 3 - - 3
Yorkshire -37 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 £420 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 1
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -
East of England -16 1 £563 +151.68% 2
Scotland - 1 £225 -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.70%) Confluence
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.09%) Azure
2 6 (8.70%) AWS
3 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (4.35%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.90%) IaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.45%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.45%) PaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Route 53
6 1 (1.45%) SaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Serverless
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.94%) DNS
2 10 (14.49%) VSAN
3 9 (13.04%) DHCP
4 8 (11.59%) Firewall
5 7 (10.14%) iSCSI
6 6 (8.70%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (8.70%) VPN
7 5 (7.25%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (5.80%) PCoIP
8 4 (5.80%) WAN
9 3 (4.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (4.35%) SAN
9 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (1.45%) LAN
10 1 (1.45%) NAS
10 1 (1.45%) PBX
10 1 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.45%) VLAN
10 1 (1.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) JIRA
2 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.35%) Git
General
1 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.84%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Finance
6 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.90%) Electronics
7 2 (2.90%) Local Government
7 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.90%) Military
8 1 (1.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) French Language
Job Titles
1 22 (31.88%) Consultant
2 19 (27.54%) VMware Consultant
3 17 (24.64%) Architect
4 14 (20.29%) VMware Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) VMware Architect
6 7 (10.14%) VMware Specialist
7 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (8.70%) Senior
8 5 (7.25%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Principal Consultant
9 3 (4.35%) Azure Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Lead
9 3 (4.35%) PowerShell Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Active Directory Migration Consultant
10 2 (2.90%) Data Centre Consultant
10 2 (2.90%) Exchange Migration Consultant
10 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.14%) PKI
3 6 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.80%) Replication
5 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.64%) Windows
2 13 (18.84%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.14%) Linux
4 6 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.90%) VMS
7 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.45%) SUSE
7 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (14.49%) Migration
3 8 (11.59%) Agile
3 8 (11.59%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (8.70%) ITIL
4 6 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
4 6 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (7.25%) Edge Virtualization
5 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (7.25%) Service Management
5 5 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (5.80%) Containerisation
6 4 (5.80%) Critical Thinking
6 4 (5.80%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (5.80%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (5.80%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (4.35%) Feasibility Study
7 3 (4.35%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 37 (53.62%) PowerShell
2 34 (49.28%) Python
3 23 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 11 (15.94%) SQL
5 3 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 42 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 30 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 17 (24.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (15.94%) MCSE
4 11 (15.94%) VCAP
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Certification
5 7 (10.14%) CCNP
5 7 (10.14%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 6 (8.70%) VCP5
6 6 (8.70%) VCP6
7 5 (7.25%) MCSA
8 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
9 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.35%) OCA
9 3 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (2.90%) CCNA
10 2 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.90%) Degree
10 2 (2.90%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.90%) GDPR
1 2 (2.90%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (57.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (42.03%) vSphere
3 15 (21.74%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (20.29%) VMware NSX
5 13 (18.84%) Active Directory
6 8 (11.59%) Hyper-V
7 6 (8.70%) NFS
8 4 (5.80%) Docker
8 4 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (37.68%) vRealize
2 11 (15.94%) Ansible
2 11 (15.94%) Terraform
2 11 (15.94%) vCenter Server
3 7 (10.14%) PowerCLI
4 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.90%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.90%) vMotion
7 1 (1.45%) SCOM
7 1 (1.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 69 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (36.23%) Microsoft
3 11 (15.94%) Veeam
4 7 (10.14%) NetApp
5 6 (8.70%) Splunk
6 4 (5.80%) Cisco
6 4 (5.80%) F5
7 3 (4.35%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.35%) Oracle
7 3 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.90%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.90%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.90%) Citrix
8 2 (2.90%) Dell
8 2 (2.90%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.90%) Juniper
8 2 (2.90%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (2.90%) ProCurve
8 2 (2.90%) SAP
9 1 (1.45%) Palo Alto